Comments on: “A Delicate Piece of Machinery”

By: Form Follows Function « PRINTERESTING

Form Follows Function « PRINTERESTING — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:39:07 +0000

[...] Follows Function Posted by RL Tillman on February 9th, 2010 | Leave a comment We’ve seen the Past, is this the Future of the Copy [...]

By: Luther

Luther — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:56:14 +0000

Or he just could have been pulling my leg… ah err… pulling my cartridge.

By: Luther

Luther — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:22:11 +0000

This was in Ohio so I would imagine that New York City was pretty fierce as well.

By: jasonurban

jasonurban — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:08:08 +0000

so reality was more like “gangs of new york” than madmen? bizarre.

By: Luther

Luther — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:51:17 +0000

I had a girlfriend who’s grandfather was a Xerox salesman in the beginning of the industry. Xerox had complete proprietary equipment, paper, toner and misc supplies. The “real” money was in the consumables back in the day as you couldn’t just stick any old paper in from what I understand.

The character depicted in the clip is not based on the reality of those days as related by my GF’s grandpa. The reality was that the early salesmen had to be kind of thuggish. They had to protect their turf from other vendors. GF’s grandpa told tales of baseball bat intimidation against other turf invading supply salesmen.